Remember a world without tweets and hashtags? Neither do we, but Twitter celebrates its seventh anniversary today, which means there must have been a time period when the social networking service didn't exist. To commemorate seven years of #TwitterDominance, we rounded up the seven best Twitter references in music from Miley Cyrus' ridiculous rap "Good-Bye Twitter" to Trey Songz's booty-call ode "LOL Smiley Face."

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7. Miley Cyrus - "Good-Bye Twitter"

7. Miley Cyrus - "Good-Bye Twitter"

Miley Cyrus explained why she left Twitter
back in 2009 in the weirdest way possible: With a hard-hitting rap joint. Okay,
the song totally sucks, but try to NOT be entertained watching the 17-year-old
Disney star deliver the following lines with absolutely no sense of rhythm:
"Everything that I type and everything that I do / All those lame gossip
sites take it and make it news." Burrrrrn!

Not long after biting the hand that
fed her, Miley returned to Twitter, where she happily remains to this day.

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6. Drake & Jimmy Kimmel - "Tweet Tweet"

6. Drake & Jimmy Kimmel - "Tweet Tweet"

Drake popped up on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2010 to craft a rap song
composed entirely of tweets from Shaq, Larry King, Justin Bieber and Michael
Jordan. To find out which of those celebrities ate "way too many shrimp" on New Year's Eve, you'll just have to watch the sketch below.

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5. Ace Hood - "Twitpic"

5. Ace Hood - "Twitpic"

DJ Khaled-signed Florida rapper Ace Hood
released "Twitpic" in 2011. Unsurprisingly, it's about posting
pictures to Twitter. Hood talks about "sexy parties" and
"bottles of the Goose," urging the participants to throw their
"phones in the air: Twitpic that!"

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4. Mistah F.A.B. - "Hit Me On Twitter"

4. Mistah F.A.B. - "Hit Me On Twitter"

Cali rapper Mistah F.A.B. released this Valentine to Twitter
in 2009, rapping, "First it was BlackPlanet, then MySpace, then Facebook
took over my place / Whoa! Now I'm stuck on Twitter."

F.A.B.'s Twibute even
preemptively hit back at "Twaters," which is what he calls Twitter
haters. "I know a lot of people are going to be like, 'Man that's corny,
what hip hop is coming to,'" he says at the end of the song. "But I
don't care, I love Twitter!"

3. Brandy - "Let Me Go"

3. Brandy - "Let Me Go"

On Brandy's 2012 comeback album Two Eleven, the R&B
singer talks about a paramour's "cocky talk" and says, "If mama
saw this side of me / She would be on Twitter saying, 'You know I didn't raise
you that way.'" Moral of the story: If Brandy's mom doesn't approve of
you, you (and the rest of the world) are gonna hear about it on Twitter.

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2. M.I.A. - "XXXO"

2. M.I.A. - "XXXO"

A single from M.I.A.'s Internet-obsessed 2010 album Maya,
"XXXO" links Looney Tunes to Twitter with the line, "You leave
me wanting more / I don’t let it show, but I think you know / Because you
tweeting me like Tweety Bird on your iPhone."

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1. Trey Songz ft. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy - "LOL Smiley Face"

1. Trey Songz ft. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy - "LOL Smiley Face"

A song called "LOL Smiley Face" has no right to be
this good, but honey-voiced R&B crooner Trey Songz does have some serious
skills. The crux of this technology-centric tale of a booty call is that
"Shorty sent a twitpic / Sayin' come get this."

Excited to get this girl with "a body like a Coke
bottle," Songz tells her to "Twitter me a picture" while he's on
the way to her place. Although "Twitter me a picture" sounds like your
mom trying to fit in with a bunch of teenagers, the song itself is an excellent
snapshot of 21st century hookups.

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